The Journal's Love Letter to Sunset Park
The Journal pens a glowing neighborhood profile of Sunset Park this morning, describing an area rich with ethnic history that’s poised for the kind of bohemian gentrification experienced by many of the brownstone neighborhoods in recent years. Yes, Sunset Park has its Mexican and Chinese restaurants and base of solidly working class residents, but the…
The Journal pens a glowing neighborhood profile of Sunset Park this morning, describing an area rich with ethnic history that’s poised for the kind of bohemian gentrification experienced by many of the brownstone neighborhoods in recent years. Yes, Sunset Park has its Mexican and Chinese restaurants and base of solidly working class residents, but the artists and creative entrepreneurs have been moving in recently (31 spaces at Industry City are now rented) and the boutique hotel BPM on 33rd Street opened earlier this year. And don’t forget the rooftop greenhouse–Sunset Park has one of them too. As for real estate, prices only continue to strengthen. Prices per square foot can range from anywhere under $300 to over $500, with townhouses still almost always had for less than a million bucks. “I think Sunset Park is going to be a great, exciting place,” says Paul Lightfoot, founder of greenhouse developer BrightFarms. “I’ve been in New York City since 1993, and I’m always amazed at the capacity for neighborhoods to become great, and I don’t see any reason why this can’t be one of them.”
Sunset Park’s Secret Starts to Get Around [WSJ]
i suppose the truth stings when people finally realize that the concept of the rest of the world from the rich spillover land “discovering” your neighborhood confirms that you are in fact a nobody. and when you act like a militant crazy person to your newfound neighbors it pretty much seals the deal. posting on a blog about it is just the icing on the cake.
now get the hell off my lawn and no dogs p*ssing on my tree ya dam yuppie scum.
to me there is a huge difference between some nuyorican thugs and some very family oriented central american men looking to support their families.
I wonder how many WSJ staffers would dream of setting foot in Sunset Park? And why do people think if there are no hipsters, gentrifyiers or bootstrappers in a nabe, that there is something wrong with it? That attitude, as ENY said, is so condescending. I used to spend time in Sunset Park when we were fighting closing the firehouse there. The Asian community rallied around us. It is so annoying when people who have never set foot in a neighborhood deign to tell others what it’s like. And they aren’t even looking at Sunset Park as a neighborhood. To the WSJ it’s just another place to “fix.”
Caveman